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Shalhevet Institute Explores Black and Orthodox Jewish Identities
The four panelists were invited to give a constructive rebuke to the Orthodox community for the way that it deals with issues of race.
Unpacked for Educators New Research Program Includes Three LA Schools
Educated women and children
On the Jewish Web site The Tablet, Michelle Goldberg, a senior contributing editor to The Nation, recently wrote: “In the United States, women tend to have fewer children the more education they have — those with advanced degrees have only 1.67 children each.
Sharing the next gen: How Chabad is changing Hillel — and reshaping campus life
Shabbat dinner tells one part of the story. When Alon Kashanian, a UCLA senior, wants a “very big social atmosphere” on erev Shabbat, he goes to Hillel’s grand, Jerusalem-stone-adorned, 25,000-square-foot Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life on Hilgard Avenue in Westwood. He socializes with friends and mingles with some of the 100 to 200 students — the number can vary widely — who come for services and Friday night dinner.